Cynthia Rockwell – Page 12 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Wesleyan Winter Sports Season 2011–2012

The 2011–12 Wesleyan winter sports season gave rise to some outstanding performances. While Shasha Brown ’13 was ripping it up on the basketball court for the record-setting men’s squad (see page 13), Nik Tasiopoulos ’14 was doing the same for men’s ice hockey. Generating 34 points on 19 goals and 1…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Recollections of Wesleyan in the 1930s

Nineteen-thirty was a tough year: my father’s real estate business had been an early casualty of the Depression, my parents had to adjust to a yearly income of less than $2,500, and I had given up hopes of going East to …

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Seeking Truth with The Innocence Project

As part of the Innocence Project team for the exoneration of Cornelius Dupree, Elizabeth Langston ’05 walked into a Texas courthouse with him in 2010. “Right before we stepped inside, he turned to me and said, ‘You’ve go…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

From Mourning To Celebration: A Posthumous Book

The Voyage of the Rose City: An Adventure at Sea, the senior thesis of John Moynihan ’82, was published this fall, 29 years after his graduation and seven years after his death. Kirkus Review calls it “a sincere study o…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

New Paintings by David Schorr at Davison Art Center in Early 2012

The most recent work by Professor of Art David Schorr will be shown in February and March 2012 in the exhibition APOTHECARY (storehouse) at Davison Art Center. The show features more than 75 paintings of antique apotheca…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Wesleyan Receives $2 Million challenge for Humanities Program

Wesleyan has received a $2-million challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help endow the Center for the Humanities. The grant requires Wesleyan to raise an additional $4 million in endowment funds over t…

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2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

No Laughing Matter

Among this year’s most popular SuperBowl ads was the latest installment in CareerBuilder.com’s “monkeys” campaign, starring a horde of rowdy chimps with corporate jobs. In the ad, chimpanzees in ties and trench coats cr…

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2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

Making it Easy to be Green: Susan Hunt Stevens ’92 wants to help you live green in your home

“You can measure your carbon footprint, but that’s like stepping on a scale and asking, ‘What do my bones weigh?’” says Susan Hunt Stevens ’92, founder and CEO of Practically Green. “The footprint is only one part of the…

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2010 Issue 1February 6, 2010October 6, 2014

These Cupcakes Mean Business

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2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Ten Photos That Shook the World

The little girl in the center of the photograph is naked. From the news account, we know that she has torn off her own clothes, desperate to escape the flesh–burning napalm. She runs toward the viewer, holding her arms o…

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